Keeping the Nation's House

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Keeping the Nation's House is written by Helen M. Schneider and published by UBC Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0774819995 (ISBN 10) and 9780774819992 (ISBN 13).

The term home economics often conjures images of sterile classrooms where girls learn to cook dinner and swaddle dolls, far removed from the seats of power. Helen Schneider unsettles this assumption by revealing how Chinese women helped to build a nation, one family at a time. From the 1920s to the early 1950s, home economists transformed the most fundamental of political spaces � the home � by teaching women to nurture ideal families and manage projects of social reform. Although their discipline came undone after 1949, it created a legacy of gendered professionalism and reinforced the idea that leaders should shape domestic rituals of the people.